State v. White

Gerald White appeals a judgment convicting him of operating while intoxicated and operating after revocation, in violation of secs. 346.63(1) and 343.44(1), Stats., as an habitual traffic offender. He contends that the trial court erred by concluding that his two prior Minnesota convictions for OWI constitute prior convictions that, together with his Wisconsin prior OWI conviction, justify penalty enhancement under sec. 346.65(2)(d). He argues that because the Minnesota OWI statute does not conform to sec. 346.63(1), the trial court was precluded from counting the Minnesota convictions as…